Evaluating an Early Modern Soteriology: Nicholas Bobadilla's Question on Meriting Eternal Life
The origins of the mistrust and negative views of Nicolás Bobadilla may have started as early as 1546 when several of his companions expressed dismay that he might come to the Council of Trent as a theologian to Reginald Cardinal Pole. Alfonso Salmerón, Diego Lainez, and Claude Jay may have feared t...
| Published in: | Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institution of Catholic Studies
2020
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Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu
Year: 2020, Volume: 89, Issue: 178, Pages: 379-417 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDB Roman Catholic Church NBK Soteriology |
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Bible
B Fathers of the church B Laínez, Diego, 1512-1565 B Theologians B Jesuits B SALVATION in Christianity |
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| Summary: | The origins of the mistrust and negative views of Nicolás Bobadilla may have started as early as 1546 when several of his companions expressed dismay that he might come to the Council of Trent as a theologian to Reginald Cardinal Pole. Alfonso Salmerón, Diego Lainez, and Claude Jay may have feared that Bobadilla would take a theological position in opposition to their own and thus show a divided Society of Jesus at its beginning. To explore this hypothesis requires a critical examination of Bobadilla's theology of justification and hence a critical edition of his "De modo merendae vitae aetemae". Identified as a disputed question written c. 1572 (well after the Tridentine decree on justification), the document presents a clear and creative soteriology that remains within the orthodox framework outlined by Trent, while adding its own nuances. Bobadilla's theology reflects mature thought and signs of his pastoral experience in Germany and Italy. He demonstrates a command of both Sacred Scripture and the Fathers of the Church, as well as an awareness of a range of scholastic theologians and the positions of his contemporaries, both Catholic and Protestant. While it remains difficult to classify Bobadilla's theology as either expressly spirituali or definitely Tridentine, it clearly reflects the desire to reform and reconcile the Church. Bobadilla's emphasis on the need to respond to God's grace reflects his own preaching on reforming morals, as well as the charism that had brought him to join Ignatius' band in Paris in 1533. (English) |
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